Lawmakers Question Sending Military Laser Tech To Russia

Law360, New York (March 25, 2014, 3:26 PM EDT) -- A group of 18 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter Monday to Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, calling on the department to drop plans to send military laser training technology to the Russian Federation in light of the country’s incursion into Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula.

The lawmakers, led by Reps. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., and Michael Turner, R-Ohio, said in the letter that a review of the Fiscal Year 2014 budget and proposed Fiscal Year 2015 budget request uncovered plans by the National...